Heather Watson · TheSportsDB · Courtesy of TheSportsDB
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Heather Watson is a British tennis player who was born in Saint Peter Port on May 19, 1992. She is a right-handed competitor representing the United Kingdom and has resided in Guernsey and Bradenton. Watson began her professional work period in 2010 and stands 170 cm tall with a mass of 63 kg. Her career statistics include a singles record of 392–326 and a doubles record of 169–174, with a career ranking of 39 and prize money totaling 5,417,921.
She has competed in various international events, including the 2010 Commonwealth Games and the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she participated in both women's singles and women's doubles. Watson also took part in tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She is a member of the Great Britain Billie Jean King Cup team and plays on the WTA Tour.
Synthesized by Vinony from 37 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Crossref, Last.fm, Thesportsdb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 6
Top works
- Homebrewing Guilt-Free Cookbook
- A critical study of the multiview methodology
- Health of the young nation off target
- Systems analysis and COBOL programming for an estate agent
- Take the Lead
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 20
- Total plays
- 340
Heather Watson; now playing guitar, started life as a bassist but found herself without a band in 2003 and decided to take matters into her own hands. "Strong, empowering, yet accessible" Demos Reviewed Sept 07 Debuting as a solo act at the Trafalgar in Douglas, Isle of Man, with a set of original songs, Heather went on to gig around the Island and strike audiences dumb with her mixture of folk/alternative/acoustic songwriting. Now, having been successful in Island competitons <a href="https:
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,863x
- PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation
· 2018 · cited 36,102x
- Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales.
· 1988 · cited 29,265x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,756x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,938x
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Key facts
- Country sports
- Great Britain
- Born
- ( 1992-05-19 ) 19 May 1992 (age 34) , Saint Peter Port , Guernsey
- Height
- 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
- Plays
- Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
- Coach
- Diego Veronelli
- Prize money
- US$ 6,002,243
- Career record
- 436–367
- Highest ranking
- No. 38 (19 January 2015)
- Current ranking
- No. 354 (4 May 2026)
- Australian open
- 3R ( 2013 )
- French open
- 2R ( 2011 , 2012 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2018 )
- Wimbledon
- 4R ( 2022 )
- Us open
- 1R ( 2011 – 18 , 2020 – 21 )
- Olympic games
- 2R ( 2012 , 2016 )
- Bjk cup
- SF ( 2022 , 2024 ), record 31–16
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Tennis
- Team
- WTA Tour Womens
- Position
- Tennis Player
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Heather
- Family name
- Watson
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Saint Peter Port
- Occupation
- tennis player
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics – women's singles
- Sport
- tennis
- Member of team
- Great Britain Billie Jean King Cup team
- Country for sport
- United Kingdom
- Mass
- 63
- Image
- Heather Watson (49810069577) (cropped2).jpg
- Height
- 170
- Residence
- Bradenton
Show 9 more facts
- Commons category
- Heather Watson
- date of birth
- 1992-05-19
- singles record
- 392–326
- doubles record
- 169–174
- ranking
- 39
- prize money
- 5417921
- start of work period
- 2010-00-00
- social media followers
- 168063
- ancestral home
- Papua New Guinea
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Last updated on: 16 May 2026.
Heather Miriam Watson (born 19 May 1992) is a British professional tennis player. A former British No. 1, Watson has won ten titles over her career, including the mixed-doubles title at the 2016 Wimbledon Championships, partnering Henri Kontinen, making her the first British woman to win a major title since Jo Durie in 1991, and the first to win a Wimbledon title since Durie in 1987. In October 2012, Watson won her first WTA Tour singles title at the Japan Women's Open, becoming the first British woman to win a WTA tournament singles title since Sara Gomer in 1988.
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